Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Beware of fan mail

On FB Wendy Clarke mentions receiving
a letter from a reader who wanted to let her know she’d enjoyed Wendy’s womag story.
How lovely for Wendy to receive that. What a lovely reader, taking the time to
write. Although no addresses are given out, Wendy is able to contact her reader
via the magazine the story was published in. And that’s lovely too but beware!

Back in the 80s and 90s I received many
letters from readers. Two of them were from the Antipodes. One told me she was
a relative. Her maiden name had been Hackles and she had traced the family tree
from when my husband’s great-grandfather sailed to Australia in the 1880s. We
began writing and spent several holidays with this long-lost relly.

Another wrote to say she thought we
were related when I used my mother-in-law’s maiden name on a story – Crayford.
It turned out this reader was born Crayford and she’d traced the family back to
Canterbury, UK – that’s where the LSO’s Mum was born. No real proof but…

We wrote. We exchanged Xmas cards and
then she and her husband turned up on our doorstep and (here comes the beware
bit) we couldn’t get rid of them.

About Me

An explanation. I'd like to change invisible granddaughter now but don't know how to.
I'd like to change Travels with Sid but see above.
We changed Sid, the motorhome, for Bill the Bailey motorhome and we are still travelling.
The LSO is the Long Suffering One - husband.
Little Sid is our swivelling heater which looks like a mini-Dalek.
Noelly is my little sunshine yellow Ka.
Dave is the car we are using while Noelly is being renovated.
I put up a new post every Sunday.